Death came by way of physical fatigue, as Pyongyang's official news agency had it.... How he really died — of natural causes or of, well, intervention of a military or conspiratorial sort — will help determine the nature of the successor regime.

- North Korean leader KIM JONG ILthanking Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for arranging a Siberian train journey leading up to talks betweenthe two leaders Wednesday. A spokeswoman for Medvedev said North Korea is ready to impose a moratorium on tests of weapons of mass destruction